Los días de la fiebre

In March 2020, South Korea became an example of how to slow down the Covid-19 and that could justify this book as an account of the measures they took to achieve it; a report on the lucid or controversial restrictions of the country that we never looked at - the same from Parasites - or an essay on everything that Asians do differently. It could be a speculative text about the future of society and about the limits of privacy against the common good. It could be all of that, yes, and maybe it is, but above all it is a literary testimony of someone who watched in perplexity as their world shook for a hundred feverish days. In other words, a book about what we have all felt and about the questions that we will take years to answer. Medieval plagues made us think differently about God, for the first time raised doubts about his existence. This new virus, what question does it ask us? Will the disinfection brigades be the new firefighters? How will we relate emotionally through the masks? What will shared solitude be like in the company of twenty people in a concert hall set up for three hundred? Andrés Felipe Solano stops at the close, the domestic, the everyday, to tell us about the birth of a new world, of a world devoid of shadows.